JOHN MURRAY, 2ND EARL and I ST MARQUESS (cr. 1676) of Atholl (1631-1703), son of the I st earl was born May 2, 1631. In 1653 he was the chief supporter of Glencairn's rising, but was obliged to surrender with his two regiments to Monk, Sept. 2, After the restoration Atholl received many high offices in Scotland. He at first supported Lauderdale's tyrannical policy, but after the raid of 1678, called the "Highland Host," in which Atholl was one of the chief leaders, he joined in the remonstrance to the King against the severities inflicted upon the Covenanters, and was de prived of his office of justice-general and passed over for the chancellorship in 1681. In 1679, however, he was present at the battle of Bothwell Brig; in July 168o he was made vice-admiral of Scotland, and in 1681 president of Parliament. In 1684 he was appointed lord-lieutenant of Argyll, and invaded the country, capturing the earl of Argyll after his return from abroad in June 1685 at Inchinnan. The excessive severities with which he was charged in this campaign were repudiated with some success by him after the Revolution. (A. Lang, Hist. of Scotland, iii. 407.) At the Revolution he wavered, showing no settled purpose but wait ing upon the event, but he took part in the proclamation of William and Mary as king and queen at Edinburgh. After Dun dee's insurrection he was imprisoned for a few weeks. In 1690 he was implicated in the Montgomery plot and subsequently in fur ther Jacobite intrigues. In June 1691 he received a pardon, and acted later for the Government in the pacification of the High lands. He died on May 6 17 03. He married Amelia, daughter of James Stanley, 7th earl of Derby (through whom the later dukes of Atholl acquired the sovereignty of the Isle of Man).